Diplomacy

China Continues To Woo Taiwan's Opposition Party

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Even though the government of Taiwan rejected the pandas, China's leadership continues to press for influence using business connections, of course. Money talks. Just like it does, here. Meanwhile, Condi and Bush decide to trivialize Hu's important business trip here and plan to insult him repeatedly. How *clever*.

Xinhua Net:

The Chinese mainland on Saturday announced a new package of policies to promote economic and trade relations across the Taiwan Straits.

Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made it public at the end of the two-day Cross-Straits Economic and Trade Forum, as a further step the mainland has taken to boost cross-straits exchanges and cooperation in favor of Taiwan compatriots.

The package is comprised of three sets of policies directly stipulated by the State Council and 12 others formulated by the relevant central government departments.

The three sets of State Council policies are as follows:

-- To add four species in a list of Taiwan-grown fruits, which currently have 18 species, for Taiwan exporters.

-- To adopt a zero-tax on imports of 11 kinds of vegetables produced by Taiwan farmers.

-- To allow more imports of Taiwan's aquatic products, with zero-tax on some of the products, and allow Taiwan fishing boats to enjoy equal policies as their mainland counterparts for selling their own products.

And excetera. Meanwhile, thanks to American diplomacy, the price of oil on the world markets has shot up yet again. I'm sure everyone who isn't an oil pumping nation is absolutely thrilled by all this. Not. We think everyone is cowering in fear over the tiny nation of Iran. Especially the USA, seemingly, the scardiest of the trembling lambies. It is quite peculiar, seeing America pretend to be frightened. One would think a powerful nation would rather walk over hot coals than look scared all the time but here we are, terrified tots straight down the line.

Meanwhile, Chad is pissed at the World Bank and is cutting oil production, too!

YAOUNDE, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The Chadian government issued a statement Saturday, threatening to stop oil production unless the World Bank unfrozen its oil revenues in a London escrow account.

According to reports reaching here from Chad's capital of N'Djamena, the decision was made after a meeting between President Idriss Deby and his Cabinet ministers.

Chad signed a oil development deal in 1988 with a consortium headed by U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil. The deal led to the construction of a 3.7 billion U.S. dollars pipeline that could carry inland Chad's oil to Cameroon's Kribi terminal.

Under the deal, Chad, which produces 160,000-170,000 barrels of crude per day, gets a 12.5 percent royalty on each barrel exported by the consortium.

The World Bank financed the construction of the oil pipeline on condition that Chad adopted a oil law to allocate most of its oil revenues to alleviate poverty.

However, Deby signed a decree in January amending the World Bank-supported oil law, reducing funds to help the poor.

As a result, the World Bank suspended all loans to Chad and froze a London-based escrow account that collected revenues from the pipeline.

Hey, can we do that here? Get the World Bank to allot oil revenues for the poor? Haha! And pigs will do loop de loops high in the sky, too! This, too will drive up the price of oil even more. Seems everyone is pulling the oil trigger now. No matter what we or Israel do, it will cause the price of oil to shoot up and today, at the news stands, I saw the New York Post, a totally right wing rag owned by Murdoch, screaming headlines about the high cost of fuel. "Holy Oil!"

Seems there is some unsettled unhappy people in the Heartland. China seems unruffled by the high cost of oil. Japan is grinning and bearing it since they stupidly drove the yen into the pits to continue penetration of America's markets but this means their dollars they retain are losing value pretty fast and this can get very expensive very quickly for them. The Chinese yuan is happily rising in value which is bad for us for it makes us look stupid and cheap. Just as we are trying to buy lots of oil with our increasingly cheap dollars.

So, time for us to insult our bankers yet again! US News Report:

By Bay Fang
4/24/06
It was the week before the presidential summit, and in Washington, a series of key trade negotiations have just set the stage for talks between President Bush and President Hu Jintao of China. The Chinese have promised to reopen their market to U.S. beef and committed themselves (again) to reduce piracy of American goods, among other things--but the concessions all come as a surprise. "It went better than we expected, frankly," says a trade official close to the negotiations. "Usually, all the negotiations are done in the two months before the talks, but this year, up until a couple days before we met we had no idea if they would bring anything to the table."

President Hu is coming to Washington, and by all accounts, expectations are low. With the U.S. trade deficit with China hitting a record $202 billion in 2005, and contentious issues like Chinese currency values and protection of intellectual property rights, there is more than enough for the two leaders to discuss--but neither side is expecting to get a whole lot of substance accomplished during this visit. "It's all about managing a modest agenda toward a modest success," says Kevin Nealer, a partner in the Scowcroft Group, an international advisory company, who specializes in China. "It's making meetings between two heads of state look normal."

That in itself could be an important accomplishment. There are tensions, after all, not only over trade but also over China's growing military and political influence in Asia, its threats toward Taiwan, its competition for energy resources, and its human-rights abuses. The Chinese worry about whether the United States is moving toward a containment policy with Bush's diplomatic moves such as his recent embrace of India.

Smile. For Chinese officials, a key part of what they are unilaterally calling a "state visit" is the photo ops. After much negotiation, Hu on Thursday will receive a ceremonial welcome on the South Lawn and a 21-gun salute. He will be treated to a formal luncheon at the White House, though not a state dinner (since the Bush administration doesn't regard this as a state visit). "The Chinese people want to see their president treated as a great leader," says Michael Green, until recently the head of Asian affairs at the White House's National Security Council. "Whereas in Washington, the American public and Congress want to see the Chinese being held accountable on a number of issues."

The Chinese are not stupid. They know when they are being insulted. They carefully gage every possible permutation of public display when hosting other nations. They rolled out the red carpet in every direction when Putin came. Bush, on the other hand, tries to treat Putin as a low level flunky, even openly boasting about calling him "Pootie Poot." The Chinese leaders come and go from Russia now, easily, all the time and their chats there are utterly opaque to our straining ears but I can easily imagine what these leaders are whispering into each other's eager ears!

Condi and Bush seem to have a nack for insulting people. Bush displayed that today by slapping little children in the face because their mommies and daddies wanted to take them to an egg roll but they were the wrong mommies and daddies. Gah.

And what is this "threat to Taiwan"? Perhaps the State Department should start reading my blog. The patient, clever, NON INSULTING courting of Taiwan continues. Like peeling an apple, the Chinese leaders carefully cut away unity against them, they are succeeding marvelously and will win, quite peacefully, in the end. This is their plan. They want an intact, friendly, cooperative Taiwan, not an Iraq on their hands! This is called "being smart."

Luckily for Hu, Congress will be in recess. Some of his biggest critics are on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have introduced two bills threatening punitive trade sanctions if China does not allow its currency to rise. U.S. manufacturers contend that China's yuan is undervalued by as much as 15 to 40 percent, giving Chinese goods an unfair advantage that costs American jobs and contributes to the trade deficit. "The failure of China to permit its currency to move, as most other countries in the world are doing, leads to a major protectionist trade reaction here in the United States," says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington.

This explains why the yen is so cheap. Gads. Talk about a bunch of dummies. Do we imagine the Chinese are as stupid as us? That they haven't noticed we use Japan to hide our budget deficit even if this means killing our trade values vis a vis Japan? Of course not. The yen is super cheap and the yuan is beginning its historic climb as it reveals itself as the world's strongest currency.

The Chinese FOREX dwarfs ours! And it is bigger than Japan's! This means something, everyone, something historically big, like huge, er---"end of the British Empire" big! And we need that money they are holding and so we are going to insult them? Cut off trade? Guess who holds a zillion factories? Us or them? And unlike Japan, China has a giant internal market and they intend, in the end, to primarily service IT not US.

Americans ask, "don't our manufacturers have to sell to us?" and I will tell you, "NO!" They don't want to nor need to. Soon enough we will find out they want to cut down our use of automobiles, for example, so they can drive super fast, big cars while we bicycle on the shoulder of their roads which will no longer be congested. The air will be clean and they will be supremely happy and we get to live at a much lower level, thank you!

This is the plan. Meanwhile, we play infantile diplomacy games with the world's biggest economic super power (we are NOT THAT ANYMORE!).

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Condi Rice Is Doing A Superb Job---For Israel And International Oil Cartels

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Condi Rice gets great press coverage. Even as she destroys American diplomacy across the planet, as she causes worse and worse problems for us in many countries, she is feted and loved by the media and polticians at home. This is because she is doing a superb job for her real clients, OPEC's Arab and American oil well owners and Israel. One can serve 2 masters but not 3, it seems.

New York Times:

Two weeks ago on Sunday, Condoleezza Rice got up at 4 a.m. so she could fit in her daily exercise regimen — weights and the treadmill — and still have time to prepare for interviews on three morning news programs. Just a few hours later, on "Meet the Press," Tim Russert confronted her with recent reports that shortly after the invasion of Iraq, the Russians had given intelligence on American troop movements to the Iraqis. Even on the normally sympathetic "Fox News Sunday," Chris Wallace asked her why Americans should not be outraged that United States troops continue to fight and die while Iraqi politicians haggle over jobs.

*snip*

People often ask her, Ms. Rice said that day, whether playing chamber music is relaxing. "It's not exactly relaxing if you are struggling to play Brahms," she explained. "But it is transporting. When you're playing there is only room for Brahms or Shostakovich. It's the time I'm most away from myself, and I treasure it."

When I was 13 years old and we were moving into a new house, I found a box of my father's which had some pictures, letters and some sheet music. My father was a fine pianist and I wondered why he kept this Bach harpischord concerto in a box, hidden away. On it was scrawled, in German handscript, "Solche schöne Musik! Himmliche Musik!" There was also a photo of my father at the Nüremburg Trials. He never told us about being at those famous trials of war criminals! So I took the music into the music room and sat down at our harpischord and began to play it, curious about how it would sound.

My father yelled and fainted. In horror, my mother came and grabbed the music score and ran off with it but it was too late, I found a key to my father's past.

You see, he is one of the liberators of several concentration camps. At Dachau, after ordering our soldiers to find any guards they could, the ones that weren't beaten to death, and bring them into the Kommandant's office so he could interrogate them. He was only 24 years old and he was very shaken by what he found at Dachau. Sick to his stomach, he sat down at the grim desk and began to shuffle the papers there. Right on top of the pile of abandoned paperwork lay this music. My father's hands shook as he picked it up. He fell apart.

Such heavenly music!

How could a trained musician who was so "sensitive" become a mass murderer? How could "civilized" people become mass murderers? How could anyone become utterly heartless while tapping into the mercy and love of the soul? What sort of evil division of the spirit does one have to make, to became a sensitive pyschopath?

It is very simple. All one has to do is think of various groups of humans as not-human. This is very ancient, it is why we evolved and why we tolerated no relatives, not even slight variations of genetic material was allowed and when we spread across the planet, we developed many physical tags to differentiate each of our tribal groups so that today there is a huge variation in skin color and hair type and other "flashy" signs, easy to read from afar. Like all our domestic animals which have a wide variety of color, shape and size, yet remain one species, unlike in nature when there is even slight differentiations in color, size or style, soon there is no cross-breeding, humans and all our domesticated animals, no matter who strange we breed them, can all interbreed easily.

This genetic uniformity coupled with tremendous visual variations is unique in nature. It is a byproduct of the amazing human mind. We are so addicted to differentiating between ourselves, we have devised this thing called "clothing" long ago, that and tatoos and other body decorations plus a near infinite number of hair stylings, even shaving the head or the entire body, indeed, no animals mutilate their own bodies but humans do it in an amazing variety of ways. All so we can tell our tribal affiliations at a glance.

Today, these human tendencies are both strengthening and falling apart. As humans overwhelm the planet's ecosystem, we are all on the move. Seeking power and control, seeking to survive, the hunt for greener pastures, for domination is causing greater and greater stresses. Hitler, born in pre-birth control Europe, fretted about "Lebensraum"---the need for his supposed tribal/religious/ethnic group to have room to grow and flourish.

He decided to kill off or enslave all other groups which didn't overlap his own percieved grouping. So he went on a murderous rampage. Millions and millions of people died in the fires he lit! The Japanese did the same, and for the same reasons. Which is why they formed an alliance with Hitler. America was doing this, too, but less spectacularily deadly, our Jim Crow laws and customs were designed to eliminate or frustrate or cut out, people who had even a slight appearance of looking African. They were not hired for most jobs except the most degrading, they couldn't access most universities or live in most neighborhoods and they were not allowed any political rights. Based entirely on visual genetic "tags".

Today, we are seeing all over again, the desire to elevate one's own tribal group vs everyone else. We are also witnessing the death of America as a country where all people are equal and bound together NOT by religion, NOT by economic status, NOT by tribal appearances, NOT by political party, but really one nation, dedicated to the belief that all humans are created equal!

We are throwing this away for oil and for Israel. Condi has spent a successful month, running around the world, working day and night, exhaustively, all for two goals: to destroy the Palestinian people who voted in a democratic referendum to give Hamas a chance to run that miserable mess, and OPEC, note that at the end of her peramulations and sabre rattling towards Iran, the world price of oil is now $68 a barrel! What a shock....NOT. This is deliberate.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE want to pen in Iran. They fear Iran. The battle with the Persians has raged for half a thousand years and conquerer after conquerer has beaten down one or the other or both parties in this religious war and thinks they snuffed the flames at last only they weaken and fall and the fires rage again. This is a very dangerous fire. Into this mess, we have the justifiably angry and unhappy Jewish tribes reentering the ancient frays there, seeking shelter after the Hitlerian attempt at exterminating them entirely.

Instead of going to America and fighting for Universal Human Rights, many Jews across the planet have redirected their energy towards justifying the fascist concept of binding together elite groups to form dictatorships so they can rule for their own benefit. In America, for many years, thanks to the racist policies put in place by white Anglo/European invaders, only a part of the population had civil rights. Jews were outside of the "white privilage" system so they wisely decided to fight for universal rights that gives all tribes, all religions, everyone, the same rights in courts of law and on the street, in practice.

The Jewish contribution to the Civil Rights Movement was huge, complex and important. This is why the media, after WWII, in the parts of the country where there were many Jewish media owners such as NYC, for example, was sympathetic to the Civil Rights marchers and demonstrators. Every time Martin Luther King opened his mouth, the New York Times and the major TV evening news shows didn't censor him or call him names or hound him about his private affairs. They treated him respectfully and when Southern sheriffs went on the rampage, it made the news!

Contrast that with today's totally onesided or utterly censored news! Now, not matter how hideously the Saudi royals or the Israeli army acts, we see or hear virtually nothing. When particularily shocking stories like the murder of Rachael Corrie, happens on film and the internet then covers it extensively, the only parts that makes the news here is non-visual, "word picture" stories that grossly distory what really happened. Usually, the news is simply not reported. If it must be, it is mentioned quickly and then not a soul will mention it again.

When huge scandals happen like the IPAC spying on the Pentagon story, the arrests and trials are briefly mentioned with virtually no analysis and then dropped entirely from sight. The two unfortunate professors who decided to detail how Jewish publishers and lobbyists, working with confederates in other religious groups or the oil companies, run a machine that has taken over our State Department and much of our governing system in DC, these brave men were quickly dispached, attacked repeatedly by the media and one lost his prestigious position thanks to telling the truth. His mangled career stands as a rock in the road, warning anyone in a postion to reveal the truth about who runs our foriegn policy, their fate is destruction.

I am a nobody. Few read this blog. I write as a historian, watching history happen and knowing the next step, this blog exists for the future. I hope distant readers, when I put this all on paper, can see clearly how the mad desire of tribal groups to dominate other tribes has destroyed humanity. And our greed, eating up the planet, how it played with that force to destroy the planet earth.

Maybe there will be no readers. Who knows.

Condi Rice, our supposed Secretary of State, when thousands of her own "tribal group", minority Americans, were literally starving, dying of thirst, drowning, in New Orleans, she was polishing her cultural refinements. She was in New York City, going to plays and musicals, shopping for expensive shoes and dresses. She was very civilized, like the Germans under Hitler. Preening herself, pride in her cultural prowess, playing Bach on the harpsichord, so to speak, "Such beautiful music! So Heavenly!". She didn't give two figs about Americans dying. She no longer considered herself one of her own "tribe". This is why she straightened her hair, for example. Unlike McKinney, a black woman who is blatantly black, Condi doesn't worry about DC cops harassing her. She doesn't worry about her many faux pas appearing over and over again on the news.

Her goofy, heartless behavior in Manhattan during Katrina was all over the web but not all over TV nor did the NYT run editorials demanding she step down. Indeed, they pretend she is great for she is.....because she cares about two things: making the oil owners in America and the Middle East more powerful and destroying the Palestinians so Jews can rule the Holy Land without opposition.

None of these are good for America. We are a mixed nation. The many illegal immigrants are AS IS PROPER, demonstrating all this month, demanding civil rights. Alas, there are no corresponding demostrations like the VERY SUCCESSFUL ONES IN FRANCE, fighting globalization and the destruction of the working class. Nor are there any realistic antiwar demonstrations.

New York Times:

By HASSAN M. FATTAH
Published: April 10, 2006
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 9 — Steps toward democracy in the Arab world, a crucial American goal that just months ago was cause for optimism — with elections held in Iraq, Egypt and the Palestinian areas — are slowing, blocked by legal maneuvers and official changes of heart throughout the Middle East.

Analysts and officials say the political rise of Islamists, the chaos in Iraq, the newfound Shiite power in Iraq with its implication for growing Iranian influence, and the sense among some rulers that they can wait out the end of the Bush administration have put the brakes on democratization.

Note how the NYT doesn't mention the successful election in Palestine. This isn't accidental. The fury of America's real rulers over this unfortunate people's choices knows no bounds. The rulers are willing to kill the entire propaganda campaign for "democracy" under the aegis of the Ruling Class of America, just to prevent the idea that Muslims can choose their own rulers means they can actually do it, from taking root. The rulers feel that if they starve and abuse the Palestinians literally to death, this will scare all Muslims into bowing before our shocking Awe. This is why we are so shamelessly butchering Iraqis. As a warning to everyone, you mess with the Real Rulers, they can't be stopped if they want to destroy everything, kill everyone.

As Condi and her sponsors work hard to start WWIII and open talk about using nukes on a non-nuclear nation that we have already declared war, brings out exactly no alarm here in America. I read comments on liberal websites like this: "Maybe the UN will stop us." Or, "The French won't let us do this, China will stop us, Russia will say no!" Or, "Maybe Bush will be impeached!"

Absent is this, "I am going now, to organize a loud demonstration! I am going to chain myself to the White House fence!" Instead of taking to the streets, people sit at home. Demoralized and depleted. It is interesting, seeing the huge coverage of the pro-illegal alien marches. In the past, when we had equally big marches, the media refused to cover it, when they did, they openly lied about how many marchers there were and the police did everything they could to arrest people, to harry them, to confine them!

How many were arrested in NYC during the antiwar demonstrations! How few, this week, even when people openly proclaimed they were illegally here?

This is because our ruling elites don't mind illegal immigration, it is just another tool to them. Powerless, huge in numbers, bringing down labor costs in hot industries like construction, the massive profits of the housing boom didn't go to carpenters or sheetrock workers, it went to the developer and contracting companies. Thanks to illegal workers who have no insurance, no pensions and no future, for once they are made legal, they will be cast off and replaced with a new wave of illegals who will keep down costs! This is why that issue has to be confronted with a simple law: anyone hiring illegal labor in order to cut costs and not hire citizens covered by the law, will be arrested!

Just like the Middle East mess, our media doesn't want us to override our ethnic/religious affiliations, they want us to be divided. The marches for civil rights for immigrants isn't uniting us, it is dividing us because the key issues about labor can't be talked about.

Which takes me back to Condi Rice who, in order to get power and adoration, has rejected her own people and works tirelessly for oil company owners and Zionists, to the point that she let her own people perish in New Orleans and still doesn't give a hoot about them, today. This is all very difficult to sort through which is why our nation is not sorting through this. Divided loyalties, people being bought out, tribes and religions manipulating other tribes for their own profit. Which is part of the Abramoff/Indian tribal gambling schemes were also about.

I don't care what ethnic group or religion one springs from. I think all people should celebrate their rich heritage, for everyone has one, you know, and the world would be a poor place indeed if everyone looked alike or believed the same thing. Evolution thrives on diversity. In diversity is strength and the USA was strong because we were diverse. Binding together our diversity while not being torn apart by contrary loves, this is very hard for America to achieve. Can we do it?

The key is in our Constitution, in the Bill of Rights. This is exactly what Condi Rice, the New York Times, both political parties, note how the Democrats vote! They are all, and there are many of them, tearing up this vital document. They are driving us into tyranny! They know many Americans want to impeach Bush, for example, and this seldom makes the news and is never talked about on talk shows or the radio. Nor do the Democrats, aside from McKinney, for one, mention it. They openly order us to stop thinking about it! So instead of fixing things, we are going into WWIII over the same stupid, awful, easy to see through excuses! The spy plane shot down by Iran, it didn't make the news in a big way, for example. Because we are in the wrong, we are silent about it. But we continue to probe Iran, seeking weaknesses we can exploit, poking at them, hoping they will say the wrong thing, make a misstep so we have an excuse to attack them.

And no one here seems to want to stop this horror. No one. And as I try to examine and explain why, noting that Israel can't write a Constitution because they would have to openly declare themselves a fascist police state with no Civil Rights for anyone, just layers of tribal privilages, we are losing our own Constitution here in America. The illegal aliens want to be covered by our Constitution. I want this, too.

They are marching. We are not. We have to force both political parties to put America first, to put our Constitution above the laws, not esvicerate it via laws that are even unconstitutionally foisted upon us. We have so little time left and I am a mere no body. With only a handful of readers, if I had censored myself and never mentioned "Israel" or "Palestine" or took the side of the Palestinians, I would probably be quoted by other liberals and linked by them, etc. But then, I would be lying instead of telling the truth as I see it.

For example, there is only a small amount of comments at various liberal blogs about the startling, huge immigration demonstrations. The tepid response by most liberal bloggers is not surprising. We are lost in our own wilderness. We want someone to fix this mess. But there is no knight on a white horse, there is the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The flag we rally around is not a banner or a color, it is a concept, it is all words, it is the Constitution. Freedom means tyranny if it isn't coupled with Civil Rights which is why our Constitution is valuable. We have a tool which can prevent the rule of the majority becoming despotism. This is why the rulers who have money and influence are so anxious to kill off the Bill of Rights!

This is where our fight lies. This is our banner, our guiding star, the Constitution. This is why Bush and Condi and all of them should be arrested.

Thank you for the patiently reading this long article.

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Caracas Fracas: US Ambassador Wanted Photo Op But Was Pelted With Tomatoes

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The crude diplomatic games the American Empire and fiesty Venezuela are playing can be amusing if they weren't also so terribly dumb. It is one thing for a small nation to poke fun at us but for us to set ourselves up to be poked is just plain dumb. The recent fracas in Caracas is an example of hamfisted American attempts at trying to undermine a government.

BBC News:

Last Updated: Saturday, 8 April 2006, 00:18 GMT 01:18 UK

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US accuses Venezuela over attack

Motorcyclists chased the convoy for at least 10 minutes
The US has accused city officials of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, of complicity in an attack on the car of US Ambassador William Brownfield.
The ambassador's convoy was pelted with eggs, onions and tomatoes and chased by motorbikes for some miles by supporters of President Hugo Chavez.

US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said the attack had been condoned by the city government.

However, the mayor's office in Caracas denied any involvement in the incident.

The BBC's Greg Morbasch in Caracas said Mr Brownfield is accustomed to verbal abuse from supporters of the president but this latest incident is the first time he and his team have had objects thrown at them.

Mr Brownfield - who was visiting a low-income neighbourhood in Caracas to donate baseball equipment to underprivileged children - had recently stated he was concerned for his safety.

This is exactly what I have been raging about for quite a while. The psychotic need of America to replay WWII "handing out candy to poor children" scenarios. We do this pathologically in Iraq no matter how often luring small children to surround heavily armed troops in the middle of an insurrection is. Too many children have died because of our desire to lure them into "friendship" via candy and toys.

I would never let strangers or people I dislike, give my children candy and toys. PERIOD. If anyone wanted to hand over something to them, they had to go through me, first. This is the same with countries! If the USA wants to take cameramen and diplomats to some school or playground to hand out candy and toys, they can't do this on their own initiative! They have to arrange the matter with the mayor, the govenor, the President. Imagine if Castro were to demand to come to the USA and hand out candy on a street corner!

Boy, would we raise a row! This stupid stunt was devised to push back after Chavez gave millions of dollars of oil aid to Northeastern states that couldn't get our Exxon/Mobile Congress or our Saudi Oil Sadist President to pump for us! Nope. They told us to freeze to death. Haha.

So Chavez filled the gap. He still had to go through the hoops of the approval process run by the USA which he did. So govenors and mayors cooperated with him! He didn't barge in and try to shove it down our throats. He was filling a gap created by our greedy oil companies who have conspired with Bush and others to plunge us into a vast, expensive war with Iraq that has so ravaged our government, it can't help the citizens anymore

This is in stark contrast with Venezuela. The children there aren't poor urchins who can't get baseball mits. The key reason we hate Chavez so much is because he gets them baseball mits AND medical attention AND free schools! Courtesy of the oil! Unlike Mexico, for example.

If the USA is sincere about wanting to do things with the children of Venezuela, they can work with the government there to improve their lives. Hell, they could go that HERE in AMERICA. Who just kicked out the Hurricane Katrina victims? Eh? Do they get free toys and candy today? Dare the GOP send out their ambassadors to our inner cities?

Har.

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Iraqis Accuse Rice of "Naked Intervention"

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Condi Rice's diplomatic style is to be tremulous when cornered or blurt out obvious truths that irritate her fellow conspiritors or barking orders. She is by far and away, the most inept and irresponsible diplomat to ever trod the world stage.

New York Times:

By KIRK SEMPLE
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 5 — The visit here this week by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart, Jack Straw, only served to stiffen the resolve of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to retain his post, prolonging a deadlock in the formation of a new government, a top aide to Mr. Jaafari said today.

The aide, Haider al-Abadi, said the visit was ill-timed, counterproductive and what he called "naked intervention."

"Pressure from outside is not helping to speed up any solution," he said. "All it's doing is hardening the position of people who are supporting Jaafari."

He added, "They shouldn't have come to Baghdad."

His comments were echoed by other leaders across the political spectrum today, including Kurds and Sunni Arabs.

"They complicated the thing, and now it's more difficult to solve," said Mahmoud Osman, an independent member of the Kurdistan Alliance, speaking of Ms. Rice and Mr. Straw. "They shouldn't have come and they shouldn't have interfered."

Actually, Condi's hamfisted, unprofessional diplomacy did work! It brought the Iraqis together yet once again by reminding them forcefully that America is the real enemy. Of course, from out point of view, this is a disaster because we don't want them united against us.

Associated Press:

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 4, 7:15 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday brushed aside suggestions that the United States wants an indefinite troop presence and permanent military bases in Iraq.

"The presence in Iraq is for a very clear purpose, and that's to enable Iraqis to be able to govern themselves and to create security forces that can help them do that," Rice told the House Appropriations Committee's foreign operations panel.

"I don't think that anybody believes that we really want to be there longer than we have to," the chief U.S. diplomat added.

No kidding, Condi. We will be lucky to get out of that disasterous cul de sac in one piece. If we start a war with Iran, we will leave in coffins. Meanwhile, Condi's admission of our thousands (millions) of tactical errors is reaping the whirlwind with her fellow war criminals.

Washington Post:

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 6, 2006; Page A21

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he did not know what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was talking about when she said last week that the United States had made thousands of "tactical errors" in handling the war in Iraq, a statement she later said was meant figuratively.

Speaking during a radio interview on WDAY in Fargo, N.D., on Tuesday, Rumsfeld said calling changes in military tactics during the war "errors" reflects a lack of understanding of warfare. Rumsfeld defended his war plan for Iraq but added that such plans inevitably do not survive first contact with the enemy.

"Why? Because the enemy's got a brain; the enemy watches what you do and then adjusts to that, so you have to constantly adjust and change your tactics, your techniques and your procedures," Rumsfeld told interviewer Scott Hennen, according to a Defense Department transcript. "If someone says, well, that's a tactical mistake, then I guess it's a lack of understanding, at least my understanding, of what warfare is about."

The ultimate author of these thousands of tactical errors thinks he has been wildly successful. Calling a constantly deteriorating battlefield "a change of tactics" is like Napoleon calling his retreat from Russia, "a slight adjustment of the configuration of the battle lines." Or Hitler calling the Battle of Stalingrad "a great victory" which reminds us that Rumsfeld called our defeat at Tora Bora "the perfect victory."

This is all too pathetic. But is normal for the disaster area called the Bush Administration.

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Condi And Straw Openly Manipulate Shi'ites

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The Mother of a thousand tactical errors, Condi, has joined with the Father of Inventive Lies, Straw, to enter Iraq secretly and then to not so secretly twist Jafaari's arm and basically perform a coup that will terminate him. This is democracy, Bush/Blair style.

Associated Press:

Secretary of State Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Monday that while it is up to the Iraqi people to chose their own leaders, the international backers who have spent blood and money to end a dictatorship here have a right to expect that it will happen quickly.

Neither Rice nor Straw pointed to any specific accomplishment from a day and a half spent huddling with nearly all of Iraq's squabbling factions. But they said their message that Iraq must quickly form a government of national unity got through.

"We are entitled to say that whilst it is up to you, the Iraqis, to say who will fill these positions, someone must fill these positions and fill them quickly," Straw told reporters at a news conference.

What if they chose Saddam? America is still ticked off at the Iranians and Venezuelans for choosing the wrong person to run their countries! Didn't oil pumping countries know that one is allowed only vicious dictatorships like the one running Saudi Arabia? So long as an American puppet is "chosen" then all is well. For the illegal invaders to snarl that we spent a lot of money and blood illegally invading so by gummy, they better give us something back for all that! Well, even Hitler didn't have such chutzpah!

Associated Press:

Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Monday, killing a bystander and wounding half a dozen others. Gunmen shot down six people, including a child, in a market area of the southern city of Basra, police said.

Also Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged Iraqi leaders to form a government as soon as possible to curb the bloodshed and rein in sectarian militias behind much of the violence.

Violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims has escalated since the Feb. 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra.

More religious shrines blown up, more ministers murdered, more assassins assassinating, more professors killed, more of total chaos. Bush knows that polls show Americans will press for this war to be terminated once our dead soldiers number 2,500 and wounded, 30,000 and we are right on the verge of this magic toll so he is keeping the troops under wraps so they won't be killed at the astonishing rate Iraqis are killing each other.

Which means the chaos is only going to grow. So Straw and Condi secretly sneak into this broiling hell hole to secretly give imperial orders to the coalition that supposedly won the fake election which we are basically ripping up. The horror of watching two very unpopular governments ordering one that is much more popular than the ones in either Britain or America, is truly an amazing emotional experience.

Neither Blair nor Bush listen to their citizens. Poll after poll show that neither Americans nor Brits support this stupid war and want to continue to pour wealth down this rat hole yet both Bush and Blair claim they have the political right to stomp on popular opinion anyway. In Britain, due to the existence of three parties, one can hold power without the consent of the majority of people. In America, this is done by rigging voting machines, preventing the other party's supporters from voting and of course, using the media to attack only one party during election cycles.

This has produced the most corrupt and venal one party rule that is increasingly so unpopular, it will go down in flames if the next election is a cheat yet again!

For Bush and Blair to order Iraq to do what neither will do at home is irritating and I wish both men could be put on CIA secret planes and flown into Iraq and let these Katzenjammering twins poke Iraqi voters in the eyes, personally.

I know that will not last more than five seconds.

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